Latest / Ron Verb / Friday 3pm hour 06/05/26
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- 0:00Speaker 1: There we go, 3.07 in the afternoon. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
- 0:03Speaker 1: It's Friday, June 5th. It's a gorgeous day outside, to
- 0:06Speaker 1: say the least. And I do mean gorgeous. It's 85
- 0:09Speaker 1: degrees and just a nice breeze. It's blowing perfect weather.
- 0:12Speaker 1: That's not too humid, just one of those great days.
- 0:16Speaker 1: Hope you get a chance to enjoy it as we
- 0:17Speaker 1: go along here this afternoon. Rain in a forecast they
- 0:20Speaker 1: say for tomorrow. It's been awful dry. I mean, we
- 0:22Speaker 1: had that stretch of rainy weather. Seemed like it was
- 0:26Speaker 1: raining every day. Lately, we've had a stretch of dry days,
- 0:29Speaker 1: but got to break it up, I guess, with a
- 0:31Speaker 1: shower once in a while to keep things from drying out.
- 0:34Speaker 2: All right.
- 0:34Speaker 1: So that's how things are looking as far as weather
- 0:37Speaker 1: on Saturday. And I'm sure that the weekend in general
- 0:40Speaker 1: overall should be pretty nice for us. So we'll keep
- 0:44Speaker 1: you posted on that. Here's the problem with the Democrats.
- 0:48Speaker 1: A bill replacing mother and father with gender neutral terms
- 0:52Speaker 1: passes in New York and heads to the governor's desk.
- 0:57Speaker 1: New York Democrats recently passed a bill that would remove
- 1:00Speaker 1: the words mother and father from parts of state law,
- 1:05Speaker 1: sending a legislation to Governor Hochul's desk for final approval.
- 1:09Speaker 1: Under the new bill targeting state child custody and parental laws,
- 1:14Speaker 1: mother becomes gestating parents and father becomes non-gestating parents and
- 1:21Speaker 1: paternity becomes parentage. Can you imagine this? This is what's
- 1:27Speaker 1: wrong with the Democrat Party. And this is obviously in
- 1:31Speaker 1: New York. But the same thing applies to the Democrat
- 1:34Speaker 1: Party nationwide. They want to change the language. Do you
- 1:38Speaker 1: remember when Disney changed at their parks where they say
- 1:42Speaker 1: boys and girls? They changed it. Now they changed it
- 1:45Speaker 1: back to boys and girls once Trump got elected. But
- 1:47Speaker 1: when the Democrats were in charge, they were so politically
- 1:50Speaker 1: bizarre on our language that you couldn't say boys and girls.
- 1:55Speaker 1: And now you can see it's still taking place in
- 2:02Speaker 1: New York by eliminating the terms mother and father. Let's see.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Here's one out of Wisconsin. This goes back to March 4th, 2025.
- 2:16Speaker 1: Last year, Democrat Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers proposed to apparently
- 2:23Speaker 1: remove gender language from state law. So he wanted to
- 2:28Speaker 1: remove the term mother. He wanted to change mother to
- 2:32Speaker 1: inseminated person. And paternity to parentage. He also said several
- 2:46Speaker 1: other gender terms need to be changed. References to wife
- 2:49Speaker 1: or husband are changed to spouse in a proposal. In
- 2:54Speaker 1: other places, the word father is changed to parent, and
- 2:57Speaker 1: mother is swapped out for the phrase parent who gave
- 3:01Speaker 1: birth to the child. These people are crazy. I mean,
- 3:05Speaker 1: these people are absolutely crazy. This is the Democrat Party,
- 3:10Speaker 1: and they are crazy. I mean, they're absolutely crazy when
- 3:16Speaker 1: you get this kind of stuff. What else did I–
- 3:19Speaker 1: did you happen to see– do you believe the polls?
- 3:22Speaker 1: I don't know. Does anybody believe the polls anymore? Hard
- 3:25Speaker 1: to say, right? Really hard to say. But guess what?
- 3:32Speaker 1: Here you go. Listen to this. Fox News poll. Democrat unity,
- 3:37Speaker 1: Republican crossover shape Ohio Senate race. Are you sitting down?
- 3:43Speaker 1: President Donald Trump carried Ohio by more than 11 percentage
- 3:46Speaker 1: points in 2024, but a new Fox News survey finds
- 3:50Speaker 1: his standing in a Buckeye state has deteriorated. A development
- 3:54Speaker 1: that is benefiting Democrat Sherrod Brown in a Senate race.
- 3:59Speaker 1: By a 15-point margin, Ohioans view Trump negatively. 42% hold
- 4:04Speaker 1: a favorable opinion. And 57%, an unfavorable one. That's more
- 4:10Speaker 1: than a 20-point swing compared to his plus-six net positive rating,
- 4:16Speaker 1: 52-46 in November 2024. The Poll of Ohio Voters released
- 4:22Speaker 1: Wednesday finds Trump's ratings are about on par with the
- 4:26Speaker 1: views of Republican incumbent Senator John Husted. 41% favorable, 50% unfavorable.
- 4:34Speaker 1: While Challenger and former Ohio Senator Brown is viewed significantly
- 4:39Speaker 1: more positively. 53% positive, 44% negative. That helps Brown outperform
- 4:46Speaker 1: Houston by a 53% to 45% margin in the race
- 4:50Speaker 1: to fill the Senate's seats. His eight-point lead is outside
- 4:55Speaker 1: the poll's margin of sampling error. So they're saying what?
- 4:59Speaker 1: When they did a poll of the Senate race in Ohio...
- 5:04Speaker 1: The guy that Senator Brown, who agreed with everything Joe
- 5:09Speaker 1: Biden did, Senator Brown, who agrees with changing mother and
- 5:12Speaker 1: father and all this wacky Democrat stuff, he agrees with
- 5:15Speaker 1: all this nonsense. He is a far-left progressive. I mean,
- 5:21Speaker 1: he was right there with Joe Biden, right there with
- 5:23Speaker 1: the Democrats, open border, and he goes for all this
- 5:27Speaker 1: crazy stuff. Goes for all of it. And according to this, then,
- 5:33Speaker 1: in Ohio... It's a 53% to 45% lead. It's an
- 5:41Speaker 1: eight-point lead in the poll. 98% support among Democrats compared
- 5:51Speaker 1: to Houston's 86% among Republicans. Brown also receives backing from
- 5:57Speaker 1: outside the Democrat base, 31% of non-mega-Republicans. And 13% of
- 6:03Speaker 1: all Republicans, only 2% of Democrats pick Houston. Non-white voters
- 6:12Speaker 1: favor Brown by 58 points. So here's Sherrod Brown, as
- 6:19Speaker 1: I say, that agreed with everything that Joe Biden stood for.
- 6:21Speaker 1: And he's a far-left Democrat. And the Democrats want to
- 6:27Speaker 1: get rid of the words mother and father. All back
- 6:29Speaker 1: to this nonsense. And he's leading... In the Fox News
- 6:35Speaker 1: poll for the Senate race in Ohio, by eight points. Jeez.
- 6:44Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine. And Trump's popularity is down. I
- 6:49Speaker 1: suspect that's because of the war. I suspect that's because
- 6:54Speaker 1: of the war. And I suspect that's because of the economy.
- 7:01Speaker 1: Like it or not, the war on economy... are big issues.
- 7:06Speaker 1: And I suspect his popularity ratings are down. Trump, that is,
- 7:10Speaker 1: because of the war and the economy. Sherrod Brown is
- 7:18Speaker 1: a longtime well-recognized name, but he was defeated by Bernie Marino. Now,
- 7:24Speaker 1: John Husted is running against him. Husted was appointed by
- 7:29Speaker 1: DeWine to take the seat of J.D.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Vance.
- 7:34Speaker 1: And consequently, he's now running for that position. And liberal
- 7:41Speaker 1: progressive Sherrod Brown is beating him in the polls. I
- 7:45Speaker 1: don't know. What do you make of that? There you go.
- 7:47Speaker 1: There's the latest. I mean, it's just, it's insane to me. Because,
- 7:52Speaker 1: I mean, the Democrats will go right back to the craziness.
- 7:56Speaker 1: I mean, that's where that party is anymore. That's why
- 7:59Speaker 1: I say when you take a look at this, the
- 8:00Speaker 1: party that wants to eliminate mother and father and change
- 8:03Speaker 1: all of these things, and they do. This is how
- 8:06Speaker 1: they are. And if you think they can fix the economy,
- 8:10Speaker 1: good luck with that. They destroyed it. 330-729-9977.
- 8:12Speaker 2: 330-729-9977.
- 8:13Speaker 1: We'll get you through to us. I see that Denny
- 8:14Speaker 1: Malloy was successful in becoming the Republican chairman down in
- 8:16Speaker 1: Trumbull County. Seems like the Republican Party in Trumbull County
- 8:28Speaker 1: has a lot of controversy from within. From within. There's
- 8:34Speaker 1: a lot of fracturing from what I read in a
- 8:37Speaker 1: trip with the Republican Party in Trumbull County. We shall
- 8:42Speaker 1: see how things go as time goes on. You're on air.
- 8:47Speaker 2: Hello, Ronaldo.
- 8:48Speaker 3: I'm 74 years of age and I've voted in many,
- 8:51Speaker 3: many elections. I don't think I've missed half a dozen
- 8:53Speaker 3: in my lifetime because I make it a point to vote.
- 8:56Speaker 3: i voted for democrats i voted republicans but you know
- 9:00Speaker 3: ron who never loses the very rich very powerful corporations uh...
- 9:06Speaker 3: daily military-industrial complex you know we left right we could
- 9:11Speaker 3: tend to uh... fight democrat republican something that i agree
- 9:15Speaker 3: with democrats and so what same for republicans but the
- 9:18Speaker 3: but i believe that as long as we fight left
- 9:21Speaker 3: to right and right to left They're very rich and
- 9:24Speaker 3: they're powerful. They're happy to have us go at it
- 9:27Speaker 3: because they never seem to lose, Ron. Now, do you
- 9:30Speaker 3: think that if our name was on Epstein's list, whether
- 9:34Speaker 3: Democrat or Republican, what are the chances they'd hush that
- 9:38Speaker 3: up if it was just the Joe Bag of Donuts
- 9:40Speaker 3: and the guy that goes.
- 9:41Speaker 1: To work there? It wouldn't be hushed up at all.
- 9:47Speaker 3: The inside trading goes on. Let's bash equal opportunity bashers.
- 9:53Speaker 3: What Conor Biden did, if your son or my son
- 9:56Speaker 3: or somebody else did, they would be in jail. How
- 9:59Speaker 3: about Trump and his family and all his businesses being
- 10:03Speaker 3: exempt from the IRS? I mean, that's the plan anyhow.
- 10:07Speaker 3: There's two sets of rules. There's two sets of justice.
- 10:10Speaker 3: And as long as we keep fighting back and forth, which,
- 10:13Speaker 3: you know, I agree with some points, and you vote
- 10:15Speaker 3: for who you want. but you better pay attention to
- 10:18Speaker 3: really use pull the strings it where the oppression comes
- 10:21Speaker 3: from at more than left to right i think it
- 10:24Speaker 3: comes from pop-up and i think that's about somebody at
- 10:27Speaker 3: voted for many many times And that's what I've observed
- 10:30Speaker 3: in my lifetime.
- 10:31Speaker 1: So you observe the double standard that's going on. You're
- 10:35Speaker 1: saying there's a double standard of justice?
- 10:37Speaker 3: Justice, justice, laws. How about laws? Justice and laws. You
- 10:42Speaker 3: have taxation. You name it. There is one set of
- 10:46Speaker 3: rules for the upper, upper 1%, whoever they are, millionaires, billionaires,
- 10:50Speaker 3: rich and powerful, and everyone else has a different set
- 10:55Speaker 3: of rules. Money buys you the best lawyers in the country.
- 10:59Speaker 3: And I guess that's the way it's set up. And
- 11:01Speaker 3: if you can afford the best lawyers, your chance of
- 11:04Speaker 3: beating the rap is a whole lot better than somebody
- 11:06Speaker 3: being on public assistance with the same legal problems.
- 11:10Speaker 1: And in your opinion, it doesn't matter if it's Republicans
- 11:13Speaker 1: or Democrats, right? It's just the system, if I understand
- 11:15Speaker 1: you correctly.
- 11:16Speaker 3: Yeah, some issues, just like you were talking about the
- 11:20Speaker 3: pronouns and the men in the ladies' locker room and
- 11:22Speaker 3: all that stuff. And I can cite Republican issues, too. Sure,
- 11:27Speaker 3: those are important. But as long as we go back
- 11:29Speaker 3: and forth and we're occupied giving it to each other,
- 11:34Speaker 3: you know, arguing back and forth and fighting and who
- 11:36Speaker 3: knows what, and there's a lot of disruption going How
- 11:40Speaker 3: about the people at the top? When gasoline went to
- 11:42Speaker 3: $ 5 a gallon almost, are they still getting along okay?
- 11:46Speaker 3: The Heinz's and the Mellon's and the Rockefeller's? They're doing okay.
- 11:52Speaker 1: Yes, they're doing terrific. I mean, they pay more.
- 11:56Speaker 3: And how about the corporations? How about the gas companies?
- 12:00Speaker 3: Do you think the gasoline will come down as fast
- 12:03Speaker 3: as it went up? Record profits on all their businesses?
- 12:06Speaker 2: I mean..
- 12:08Speaker 3: So there's definitely two different sets of rules, regulations, laws, taxes.
- 12:13Speaker 3: That's my observation in some sense.
- 12:15Speaker 1: Do you foresee it ever changing? Because my answer to
- 12:18Speaker 1: you is I do not. I agree. Make no mistake.
- 12:20Speaker 1: I agree. What do you think.
- 12:22Speaker 2: About the golden rule?
- 12:24Speaker 3: Those that have the gold make the rules.
- 12:26Speaker 1: I agree. I agree with everything you're saying.
- 12:28Speaker 3: The president, I'm really concerned he's going to end up
- 12:31Speaker 3: with an Obama-type settlement. Three things when this puzzle started.
- 12:37Speaker 3: The Strait of Hormuz, regime change, and the nuclear capability
- 12:42Speaker 3: of Iran. That's where my three things were. So when
- 12:44Speaker 3: he started, I was very glad to see these top-level
- 12:48Speaker 3: people get killed because they're absolutely no good. But there
- 12:53Speaker 3: was a very bad planning. They thought maybe the people
- 12:56Speaker 3: were going to operate, stick over the government. Apparently they
- 12:58Speaker 3: didn't know well enough that people without guns cannot take
- 13:02Speaker 3: over for the people that have guns. So as we
- 13:05Speaker 3: sit here today, after spending a billion dollars a day
- 13:08Speaker 3: to the deficit, a billion of the dollars a day,
- 13:11Speaker 3: the regime is hard-lined more so because they've withstand a
- 13:14Speaker 3: couple months of bombing, and they're still there. The Strait
- 13:18Speaker 3: of Hormuz is tougher to get through now than it
- 13:21Speaker 3: was before the war started. And how's anything with the
- 13:26Speaker 3: nuclear stockpile? How's that going?
- 13:29Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you're making perfect sense to me.
- 13:32Speaker 3: Well, boy, you've got to be in trouble.
- 13:34Speaker 1: No, I mean, this is what..
- 13:38Speaker 3: You know, everything we've been through, the cost of this,
- 13:40Speaker 3: and don't forget, some service people were killed in Kuwait.
- 13:42Speaker 3: There was a missile zone. But the three big items
- 13:45Speaker 3: in my book before this started, I think they're either
- 13:49Speaker 3: the same or they're worse. And now President Trump, God
- 13:53Speaker 3: bless him, he's done some good things, but he messed
- 13:56Speaker 3: up big time on this.
- 14:00Speaker 1: You mean the war?
- 14:01Speaker 4: Oh, the war.
- 14:02Speaker 2: Yes, I'm sorry.
- 14:03Speaker 3: I like the border policy. He gave me a nice
- 14:08Speaker 3: tax rebate last year, and he doubled my standard deduction
- 14:11Speaker 3: as a senior citizen. But the wars, the war in Vietnam,
- 14:16Speaker 3: pick a war that we didn't understand the culture, we
- 14:19Speaker 3: didn't understand the people. So how are we doing today
- 14:24Speaker 3: as opposed to when this all started with Iran? You
- 14:27Speaker 3: tell me.
- 14:28Speaker 1: I will tell you that I think we would be
- 14:31Speaker 1: doing far better if this never would have happened. In
- 14:35Speaker 1: every way. In every single way, I think we would
- 14:38Speaker 1: have been much better off. Would you agree?
- 14:41Speaker 3: A billion and a half a day on the credit card.
- 14:43Speaker 3: Maybe not as much now. Our stockpile of munitions is depleted.
- 14:48Speaker 3: The emergency oil supply being run down. You know, Pittsburgh airport,
- 14:54Speaker 3: they stopped some flights that weren't profitable.
- 14:57Speaker 2: Right.
- 14:57Speaker 3: Stand by.
- 14:58Speaker 1: Stand by. Stand by. This guy makes a lot of sense.
- 15:01Speaker 1: I'll be right back with him.
- 15:04Speaker 5: I heart radio. 570 WKBN.
- 15:09Speaker 1: I just want you to know, I sat here as
- 15:11Speaker 1: I was listening to you make your statements. And I
- 15:14Speaker 1: want you to know, I agree with everything you've said.
- 15:16Speaker 1: Every observation that you made in your. you know, that
- 15:19Speaker 1: comes from years of wisdom. I'm sitting here saying, I
- 15:22Speaker 1: agree with every one of those observations, and I don't
- 15:24Speaker 1: see any of them changing anytime soon. I don't care
- 15:27Speaker 1: who's in power. And I think that's what..
- 15:29Speaker 3: I don't know if you caught that a little bit.
- 15:30Speaker 3: I said about the Pittsburgh International Airport has dropped flights
- 15:34Speaker 3: due to the cost of fuel. There was a flight
- 15:36Speaker 3: to California, I forget which airlines, because they couldn't charge enough...
- 15:41Speaker 3: that was a profitable buff so this list is going
- 15:44Speaker 3: to get worse before it gets better with this price
- 15:46Speaker 3: of i mean the petrol the fuel angry you know
- 15:49Speaker 3: the drop of their lives are dropping flights of the
- 15:51Speaker 3: one that are flying and uh... i just wish people
- 15:54Speaker 3: would say oh boy all democrats are wrong all republicans
- 15:58Speaker 3: are on campy that's lazy that's intellectually lazy i don't
- 16:02Speaker 3: agree with everything republican does a lot of agree with
- 16:04Speaker 3: every good democrat does so i just wish people would
- 16:07Speaker 3: call it as they see it you know i'm saying
- 16:09Speaker 3: that Pay attention to what's happening from up above, folks,
- 16:14Speaker 3: because they seem to get better off. It doesn't seem
- 16:19Speaker 3: to affect them. And as long as we're bickering back
- 16:22Speaker 3: and forth, they're going.
- 16:23Speaker 2: To be happy.
- 16:25Speaker 1: Well stated. Bravo.
- 16:27Speaker 3: Ron, I appreciate your show. Keep up the good work.
- 16:29Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate everything that guy had to say.
- 16:31Speaker 1: Totally agree with him. You're on air.
- 16:34Speaker 4: Yeah, well, on the way back from Rogers Flea Market today,
- 16:36Speaker 4: I saw gas at $ 3. 99. So it is starting to
- 16:39Speaker 4: come down.
- 16:40Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, see, it's like, oh, it's down
- 16:43Speaker 1: to $ 4 a gallon. Well, okay, so? I mean, it
- 16:48Speaker 1: was $ 2.
- 16:48Speaker 2: 50.
- 16:49Speaker 1: I mean, I understand what this guy's saying. And I
- 16:53Speaker 1: don't know, where would we have been economically if he
- 16:56Speaker 1: would have never got into this mess in the first place?
- 17:00Speaker 1: And now he's trying to figure out a way to
- 17:01Speaker 1: get out of this mess.
- 17:02Speaker 4: Well, the one thing I disagree with what he said
- 17:07Speaker 4: was that he doesn't understand the culture and who he's
- 17:09Speaker 4: dealing with in Iran. I think he actually does. I
- 17:14Speaker 4: think he totally understands it. So he's going at their throats.
- 17:17Speaker 4: It's the only way. So we did well at Rogers today,
- 17:22Speaker 4: and Brian Massey had an update this morning. I don't
- 17:24Speaker 4: know if you got to watch.
- 17:25Speaker 6: It on YouTube.
- 17:26Speaker 1: I did not. What is the update?
- 17:28Speaker 4: So we're going to continue to collect for another year,
- 17:30Speaker 4: and we'll try to get everything in by June 1, 2027,
- 17:34Speaker 4: to get on the 2027 ballot. And I don't think
- 17:37Speaker 4: we'll have a problem doing that.
- 17:39Speaker 1: Did he give a number as far as signatures? No.
- 17:41Speaker 6: Nope.
- 17:43Speaker 4: No numbers since the one he gave in April, which
- 17:45Speaker 4: was around 300,000. So we know we could double that
- 17:48Speaker 4: in a year.
- 17:50Speaker 1: And you want to get $ 600, 000. And you met all
- 17:51Speaker 1: the requirements of the 44 counties. We did, yep. Well
- 17:54Speaker 1: past that. Right. I mean, that is a monumental effort.
- 18:04Speaker 1: I mean, as I've told everybody, traditionally when you try
- 18:07Speaker 1: to get a constitutional amendment on the Ohio ballots, you
- 18:12Speaker 1: hire organizations to collect these signatures, and it costs millions
- 18:16Speaker 1: of dollars. Millions of dollars. This is all volunteers.
- 18:18Speaker 4: For everyone who's being negative, it's like, well, how long
- 18:21Speaker 4: do you think it should take 2,000 circulators to get
- 18:23Speaker 4: 600,000 signatures? You know, more people need to get off
- 18:28Speaker 4: their chair. I did pick up another signing station here
- 18:32Speaker 4: in Mahoning County. It's Creekside Auto in Struthers.
- 18:35Speaker 2: Great patriot.
- 18:36Speaker 4: You should stop by and sign the petition. So it's
- 18:39Speaker 4: just not enough people got involved. So it's on our backs,
- 18:42Speaker 4: I guess, to finish it. And we will.
- 18:46Speaker 1: I certainly think another year. That's a year from today.
- 18:52Speaker 1: Did you say next year, next June?
- 18:53Speaker 4: Yes. Well, yeah, it's going to have to go on
- 18:56Speaker 4: the November 27 ballot. So if we can get another 300,000,
- 19:00Speaker 4: which we will, or even more than that, that's all
- 19:03Speaker 4: the better. That's all the better. We're just going to
- 19:06Speaker 4: keep going. You know, a lot of people haven't even
- 19:08Speaker 4: heard of our initiative, believe it or not. When you're
- 19:11Speaker 4: out talking to people they haven't even heard about.
- 19:13Speaker 1: How is that? I mean, doesn't that trouble you that
- 19:16Speaker 1: somebody could be that oblivious to what's going on?
- 19:20Speaker 4: Well, yes and no. I mean, not everybody gets a
- 19:22Speaker 4: newspaper anymore. People get their news from the web.
- 19:27Speaker 2: It just depends on where you go, I guess.
- 19:29Speaker 4: Not everybody has Facebook. Not everybody listens to the Ron
- 19:33Speaker 4: Verbe show in Mahoney County and Stark and all these counties.
- 19:36Speaker 4: They should.
- 19:36Speaker 1: Damn right they should. But, you know, I mean, it's
- 19:41Speaker 1: just really strange to me. I mean, it's strange to
- 19:45Speaker 1: me how, I don't know, how uninformed so many people are.
- 19:49Speaker 1: They're just kind of living in their own bubble and
- 19:51Speaker 1: they don't want to, hey, man, I don't want to
- 19:53Speaker 1: know what's going on. I don't want any negativity. I
- 19:55Speaker 1: just want to just kind of enjoy the moment. But
- 20:00Speaker 1: you have a responsibility, I think.
- 20:02Speaker 6: In our..
- 20:02Speaker 1: News Radio 570 WKVN. Back to it. There we go.
- 20:08Speaker 5: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
- 20:13Speaker 1: And Ron Verb, you're on the air.
- 20:17Speaker 2: That young lady's hardcore, man. Keep it up.
- 20:21Speaker 1: I sit back and I look at, with a great
- 20:24Speaker 1: deal of admiration, I mean, it's easy to go sign
- 20:28Speaker 1: a petition, but the amount of time and hours that
- 20:32Speaker 1: she puts out there and volunteers is When you're at
- 20:35Speaker 1: home in the air conditioning or you're washing your car,
- 20:38Speaker 1: enjoying your family, and she's out gathering signatures, not just
- 20:43Speaker 1: her and Becky and a group of people that are
- 20:46Speaker 1: with her. These are wonderful people, great volunteers that put
- 20:50Speaker 1: their free time out there and gather this stuff. I
- 20:52Speaker 1: just think it's admirable. I mean, I'd be the first
- 20:54Speaker 1: one to tell you I could not do that. I
- 20:56Speaker 1: could not devote that much time. And for you to
- 21:01Speaker 1: show up and to sign a petition, I think, is
- 21:03Speaker 1: the least... least you can do?
- 21:06Speaker 2: Dennis Prager, uh, said there's three types of people. Uh,
- 21:10Speaker 2: there's the fighters, those who help the fighters and those
- 21:14Speaker 2: who do nothing. I never want to, I never want
- 21:17Speaker 2: to be in that last group of doing nothing. So the, uh,
- 21:23Speaker 2: The pro-life people drop off flyers every election here on
- 21:26Speaker 2: our porch and send me a text message, hey, your
- 21:30Speaker 2: things are there. When you go to church, hand these
- 21:32Speaker 2: out if you would.
- 21:33Speaker 4: Right?
- 21:34Speaker 2: It's just doing something. It's just doing something. Because I can't,
- 21:42Speaker 2: I couldn't take it if my side loses and I
- 21:47Speaker 2: didn't do anything to fight for them. You know? And it's...
- 21:52Speaker 2: I'm not asking you, Ron, to be a cheerleader, but
- 21:56Speaker 2: when the other issues are out there. So, okay, you
- 22:02Speaker 2: have personal reasons to be against the Iran thing. You
- 22:07Speaker 2: have fiscal reasons to be against it. I get it.
- 22:10Speaker 2: That's all fine. I look at the other side of
- 22:15Speaker 2: the ledger and go, border, bam.
- 22:22Speaker 1: I still support Trump over any of the Democrats. I
- 22:25Speaker 1: support Houston over Sherrod Brown. Make no mistake about it.
- 22:28Speaker 1: I can be critical of this particular thing, but the
- 22:31Speaker 1: Democrats are certainly not an option at all.
- 22:35Speaker 2: I know, and we have Jews, Bernie Sanders, I know
- 22:39Speaker 2: they're not practicing, Charles Chuck E. Cheese Schumer, supporting Graham Platner.
- 22:46Speaker 2: You have the Nazi death camp tattoo on your chest.
- 22:51Speaker 2: You people have called Trump and all the people supporting
- 22:57Speaker 2: Trump Nazis for 10 years.
- 23:00Speaker 1: And you're defending one. You're defending a guy with that tattoo.
- 23:04Speaker 2: Obviously, you don't care about Nazism at all. This guy
- 23:09Speaker 2: actually is. You never said it about Trump before when
- 23:12Speaker 2: you were invited to your parties and your weddings of
- 23:15Speaker 2: your daughter and everything else. He was fine. Now, all
- 23:18Speaker 2: of a sudden, he's a Nazi, but the guy with
- 23:20Speaker 2: the Nazi tattoo is not. People, what are you doing?
- 23:26Speaker 2: And then, oh, I'm sexting little girls. Oh, I'm beating
- 23:30Speaker 2: up the other lady.
- 23:31Speaker 4: No.
- 23:34Speaker 2: You really have dropped all standards, right? When I'm a kid,
- 23:41Speaker 2: there's a Jim Traffick and a Daniel Patrick Moynihan. speaking
- 23:47Speaker 2: the truth, saying what's right as Democrats. Not the only ones,
- 23:52Speaker 2: but now the whole political system is so bad, you
- 23:57Speaker 2: have a political hack only there because her daddy gave
- 24:03Speaker 2: her the job, Lisa Murkowski. I'll always vote against Trump.
- 24:08Speaker 2: You have Mitch McConnell, who it's the Republicans' fault that
- 24:15Speaker 2: he's still there. The guy stands up there and goes
- 24:19Speaker 2: blank for 36 seconds on multiple occasions, and you Republicans
- 24:26Speaker 2: think it's okay that he's still there. It's not okay.
- 24:30Speaker 2: It's not okay. A guy who just made money being
- 24:34Speaker 2: there his whole entire career, gave his wife a job,
- 24:38Speaker 2: got her all the money in the world, and the
- 24:40Speaker 2: deals with the communist Chinese— oh, I'm sorry, I shouldn't speak
- 24:44Speaker 2: ill of the communist Chinese— or the Nazis, because you
- 24:48Speaker 2: have a bunch of callers now who appreciate the Nazis
- 24:51Speaker 2: and Communist Chinese and say the illegals don't take anything
- 24:54Speaker 2: from America. But it's okay. It is wrong to sit
- 25:00Speaker 2: there and say, if you said, oh, all Republicans are
- 25:04Speaker 2: right and all Democrats are wrong. That's not true. Can
- 25:08Speaker 2: you vote for a Democrat?
- 25:09Speaker 1: No.
- 25:11Speaker 2: Because even if, like the guy arguing with you the
- 25:15Speaker 2: other day, well, Ron, I don't like transgenderism. I don't
- 25:19Speaker 2: like boys beating up on girls in sports. And I
- 25:23Speaker 2: don't like, it's okay. But the people you vote for do.
- 25:27Speaker 2: And they support it. And they won't back off from it.
- 25:30Speaker 2: It's just the way it is. I don't want it
- 25:34Speaker 2: to be like that. I wish you could vote for
- 25:36Speaker 2: a Democrat today. You can't. If you have any kind
- 25:39Speaker 2: of conscience, you can't. They don't want to open the border.
- 25:43Speaker 2: They don't want. How long do we fight against prescription
- 25:47Speaker 2: drug prices? And Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi said, well, well, well,
- 25:52Speaker 2: you know what? If we make our prices lower, we
- 25:55Speaker 2: won't have the entrepreneurism and they won't be making new drugs.
- 26:00Speaker 2: Guess what? Yes, they will. And I think that's what
- 26:05Speaker 2: I was going to say. Another, what, 50 drugs on the, hey,
- 26:11Speaker 2: we get the same price as anybody else in the world.
- 26:13Speaker 2: It's only fair. The other thing Abraham Simpson never answered was, well,
- 26:19Speaker 2: what would you do if you don't like the tariffs?
- 26:22Speaker 2: What would you do? But if you don't have an answer,
- 26:25Speaker 2: because there's not a good answer except for what Trump does,
- 26:29Speaker 2: or what Ross Perot said, or what Pat Buchanan said.
- 26:33Speaker 2: That's the correct answer. Trump's the only one smart enough,
- 26:37Speaker 2: strong enough to do it, and willing to take the
- 26:40Speaker 2: slings and arrows from his own side. The Republicans are
- 26:45Speaker 2: running against him just as much as the Democrats are. And, again, did...
- 26:54Speaker 2: Is it Alec or Alex?
- 26:55Speaker 6: Alec.
- 26:57Speaker 2: Okay, did Alec ever call in and answer Jake, the Zionist,
- 27:02Speaker 2: question about, what are we going to do when Ron
- 27:05Speaker 2: turns 103 and he's like, oh, I just can't do
- 27:08Speaker 2: this job anymore. There's too much stress when you're 103, right?
- 27:15Speaker 2: What are we supposed to do? Like the super young
- 27:19Speaker 2: lady was just on saying, some people don't listen to
- 27:22Speaker 2: Ron Rourke.
- 27:23Speaker 1: Hard to imagine, isn't it? It's just hard to imagine.
- 27:29Speaker 2: It's sad to imagine.
- 27:31Speaker 1: It is. It's depressing.
- 27:33Speaker 2: Casey Malone will be turning over in her grave.
- 27:36Speaker 1: She's not dead. She's still alive. What? Yes.
- 27:38Speaker 4: What?
- 27:39Speaker 2: Yes. What's going on? How come? Oh, man.
- 27:43Speaker 1: All right.
- 27:44Speaker 2: But seriously, how are we all going to stay connected
- 27:47Speaker 2: and help this young lady fight? Right?
- 27:49Speaker 6: Right.
- 27:50Speaker 1: Well, we'll do it for as long as we can.
- 28:00Speaker 2: Absolutely. But we have to have that plan in place
- 28:03Speaker 2: for what we're going to do because we have to
- 28:05Speaker 2: keep fighting. We made it this far and things are
- 28:09Speaker 2: a lot better, right?
- 28:11Speaker 1: Yes.
- 28:12Speaker 2: More illegals leaving than coming in. For the first time
- 28:17Speaker 2: in history, we sent somebody to jail for 40 years
- 28:20Speaker 2: for doing the fraud. It's taking off the American taxpayer.
- 28:25Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying about all the good news. You
- 28:28Speaker 2: know what? You can have your discussions. That's super. I'm
- 28:32Speaker 2: going to be the cheerleader because all of these things
- 28:36Speaker 2: are so much better or unbelievably better than the Bushes. Right.
- 28:42Speaker 2: Let's just say Bushes.
- 28:44Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
- 28:45Speaker 1: Then not only the Bushes. Name the Democrats. Name the
- 28:48Speaker 1: Republicans if you're saying that you still are overall satisfied
- 28:51Speaker 1: with what Trump has done. I would agree with that.
- 28:55Speaker 1: I would definitely agree with that. I can disagree with him,
- 28:57Speaker 1: and you and I can disagree on the war, but
- 29:00Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that we're not on the same plane.
- 29:02Speaker 1: Let's put it that way, okay? Different seats, but the
- 29:04Speaker 1: same plane.
- 29:05Speaker 2: And it's not even that I'm for it. It's just
- 29:08Speaker 2: that I'm so for Trump and his team. And guess what?
- 29:12Speaker 2: What's the next one going to be?
- 29:14Speaker 1: J.D.
- 29:14Speaker 2: Vance, Marco Rubio? Rock on. Let's go.
- 29:18Speaker 1: All right, Jake. Thank you. Appreciate it. Rock on. You're
- 29:21Speaker 1: on the air.
- 29:21Speaker 2: Hello.
- 29:22Speaker 8: Hey, Ron, I want to talk about Iran.
- 29:24Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
- 29:25Speaker 2: If that's okay with you.
- 29:26Speaker 1: It's okay.
- 29:28Speaker 2: Well, I'll give you my opinion.
- 29:30Speaker 8: If I was Trump, what I would do.
- 29:32Speaker 1: Okay.
- 29:32Speaker 8: But, you know, you talked about this. A lot of
- 29:35Speaker 8: people call in and talked about this. I might as
- 29:37Speaker 8: well bring it up one more time. You know, before
- 29:42Speaker 8: I get on Israel, before this all, go back to 79.
- 29:46Speaker 8: It's been, what, 47 years now since, you know, that guy,
- 29:50Speaker 8: what do you want to call him over there, the sheikh, whatever,
- 29:53Speaker 8: that took over Iran, and then they just turned that
- 29:57Speaker 8: country into a mess. When they took the hostages when
- 30:00Speaker 8: it started. You know, Reagan, you know, we've been through this.
- 30:03Speaker 8: I heard you mention it a million times. I'm going
- 30:05Speaker 8: to bring it up one more time. Reagan got in there,
- 30:08Speaker 8: didn't do nothing.
- 30:10Speaker 2: Bush Sr.
- 30:10Speaker 8: Didn't do nothing. Clinton didn't do nothing. Bush Jr. didn't
- 30:14Speaker 8: do nothing. Obama didn't do nothing. And Trump didn't do nothing.
- 30:19Speaker 8: And then come Biden. Now Trump's going to do something
- 30:21Speaker 8: about it. Now, I heard you say, you know, about... Israel,
- 30:27Speaker 8: that Trumpster puppet, and I get it to a certain extent,
- 30:34Speaker 8: but I'm going to be the scapegoat, and I'm going
- 30:39Speaker 8: to stick up for Israel a little bit. Now, you know,
- 30:43Speaker 8: I go back to October 7th, and, you know, I'm
- 30:48Speaker 8: not going to bang on Obama to all you Obama
- 30:50Speaker 8: supporters or Biden, honestly. But they did do this. They
- 30:55Speaker 8: sent money over to Iran, especially Obama. You know, Iran,
- 30:59Speaker 8: they funded Hamas. And, you know, and Hamas went in
- 31:05Speaker 8: there and massacred 1,000 people that day. And then they
- 31:09Speaker 8: took hostages. So, you know, you've got to understand Israel's
- 31:13Speaker 8: point of view. Now, the only thing with Israel is
- 31:17Speaker 8: they've got to be a little bit more responsible because
- 31:20Speaker 8: they do have nuclear warheads. Everybody knows it. They got them.
- 31:23Speaker 8: How many? We don't know, but they do have the bomb.
- 31:27Speaker 2: Now, back to Trump.
- 31:30Speaker 8: Trump did the right thing when he did go in
- 31:32Speaker 8: there and bomb their nuclear site with the uranium and everything. Now,
- 31:38Speaker 8: if I was Trump, this is just my opinion because
- 31:42Speaker 8: everybody says we don't know it. Trump don't know how
- 31:44Speaker 8: he's going to get out of this. Nobody knows how
- 31:45Speaker 8: they're going to get.
- 31:46Speaker 2: Out of this.
- 31:47Speaker 8: If I was in Trump's shoes, right or wrong, what
- 31:50Speaker 8: I would do is I'd make the deal with Iran
- 31:52Speaker 8: and say, listen, it's going to be like this. Open
- 31:55Speaker 8: that straight up. You don't own it. That's international waters.
- 31:59Speaker 8: Number two, we're going to put at least a 25-mile
- 32:03Speaker 8: radius around that uranium that we bombed. And we're going
- 32:07Speaker 8: to wash that day in and day out. And if
- 32:09Speaker 8: anybody goes into that 25-mile zone, we will kill them.
- 32:15Speaker 8: Plain and simple. Or what Trump can say is, we're
- 32:18Speaker 8: bringing our heavy equipment in there in a 25-mile radius.
- 32:22Speaker 8: We're going to dig that uranium out, and we're going
- 32:25Speaker 8: to take it. And that's the end of it. And
- 32:27Speaker 8: just walk away from it. Let them just be done
- 32:31Speaker 8: with the country. That's the only way I can see
- 32:35Speaker 8: that he can get out of this. Anybody who has
- 32:38Speaker 8: a better suggestion, come up with it. What else are
- 32:41Speaker 8: you going to do? Unless you're going to send the troops,
- 32:43Speaker 8: put the troops on the ground, send them in there.
- 32:46Speaker 8: And now you're going to have a full-blown war. Now,
- 32:49Speaker 8: I notice people have been saying, yeah, the Iran war. Well,
- 32:52Speaker 8: it's actually not a war because they don't have no ships.
- 32:54Speaker 8: They're down at the bottom of the sea. They don't
- 32:57Speaker 8: have no tanks. They have no planes.
- 32:59Speaker 4: They got nothing.
- 33:00Speaker 8: They got nothing. And the only logic way I can
- 33:07Speaker 8: come up with is say, listen, we're going to pull out.
- 33:10Speaker 2: That's it.
- 33:11Speaker 8: We're going to put a radius around that uranium. at
- 33:15Speaker 8: least 25 miles, and don't go nowhere near it. And
- 33:18Speaker 8: then open it straight up and let business as usual
- 33:22Speaker 8: go on. Other than that, I don't know any other suggestions.
- 33:27Speaker 1: Well, I guess all of that is probably easier said
- 33:30Speaker 1: than done. I mean, I don't know how you're going
- 33:33Speaker 1: to open it straight up because, see, there's many factors
- 33:37Speaker 1: involved in this. The first thing is a logistics factor.
- 33:41Speaker 1: Look how far away it is from the United States.
- 33:45Speaker 1: I mean, this is not an easy thing to continue
- 33:49Speaker 1: to deal with because of where it's located, the geography
- 33:54Speaker 1: of things to begin with. I mean, it seems to
- 33:57Speaker 1: me that this is their homeland, just as Vietnam, just
- 34:03Speaker 1: as Afghanistan was. I mean, it's different. It's their motivation
- 34:12Speaker 1: is probably more intense than ours because it's their country.
- 34:18Speaker 1: You follow me? I mean, as we've seen in the
- 34:21Speaker 1: past with people that said, OK, I mean, we bombed
- 34:25Speaker 1: the hell out of them in Vietnam. How successful was it?
- 34:28Speaker 1: I mean, we put two troops on the ground. Well,
- 34:31Speaker 1: it wasn't very successful. We've done this how many times
- 34:35Speaker 1: in the Middle East? And it hasn't been very successful. Hell,
- 34:38Speaker 1: we gave Afghanistan back to the people we took it
- 34:40Speaker 1: from in better shape with all the equipment there. They
- 34:44Speaker 1: were better off. So what was the point? So, I mean,
- 34:48Speaker 1: if you– I don't– I say this again. You have
- 34:52Speaker 1: to understand their culture, what the majority of their people think.
- 34:56Speaker 1: They don't think like you. They're in a different part
- 34:59Speaker 1: of the globe. They've got a different mentality than you,
- 35:02Speaker 1: different lifestyle than you, different standards than you, and they
- 35:05Speaker 1: don't think like you.
- 35:06Speaker 5: Youngstown's News, Weather, and Talk Station, 570 WKBN. Let me
- 35:12Speaker 5: go back to that guy.
- 35:13Speaker 1: Are you there?
- 35:15Speaker 4: Hello?
- 35:16Speaker 1: Hang on, hang on. I think it's here.
- 35:18Speaker 2: Hello?
- 35:19Speaker 8: Okay, Ron, I'm here.
- 35:20Speaker 1: All right. I mean, here's the reality. I mean... As
- 35:25Speaker 1: I say, I think he, in my opinion, made a
- 35:27Speaker 1: mistake getting in day one. Once again, I think Israel
- 35:30Speaker 1: brought him into it. I think the bunker buster either
- 35:33Speaker 1: was effective or it wasn't effective. And it seems to
- 35:35Speaker 1: me it was effective. And I don't think that they
- 35:38Speaker 1: were that big of a threat to the United States
- 35:41Speaker 1: of America at all. So it's spill milk. I mean,
- 35:44Speaker 1: he got into it. It probably is not gone how
- 35:47Speaker 1: he would like it to go and didn't get him
- 35:50Speaker 1: to cave in. And that doesn't appear that there's any
- 35:54Speaker 1: sign of that happening anytime soon. I don't even know
- 35:58Speaker 1: who you're talking with or who you're negotiating with because
- 36:01Speaker 1: so many people in that structure have been eliminated and
- 36:04Speaker 1: the other ones have been eliminated. So who is in
- 36:06Speaker 1: charge and who can make the decisions and who's running
- 36:09Speaker 1: a show? I would only hope that they would know that.
- 36:12Speaker 1: I want to make one more comment. Well, you're going
- 36:15Speaker 1: to have to hang on and I'll get to you
- 36:17Speaker 1: after the headlines.
- 36:23Speaker 6: From ABC News. I'm Mike Dabosky. President Trump is pushing
- 36:28Speaker 6: for Bill Pulte, the incoming acting director of national intelligence,
- 36:32Speaker 6: to reduce the size of the nation's spy agencies. More
- 36:35Speaker 6: from ABC's Karen Travers at the White House.
- 36:37Speaker 9: He reportedly told the Wall Street Journal that Bill Pulte,
- 36:40Speaker 9: in this role as acting director of national intelligence, could
- 36:43Speaker 9: really shake things up, downsizing the ODNI.
- 36:47Speaker 7: He could also push forward to.
- 36:49Speaker 9: Release classified documents related to the 2020 election, something that,
- 36:52Speaker 9: of course, President Trump likes to talk about a lot
- 36:55Speaker 9: and has said that the idea of having an acting
- 36:58Speaker 9: official in this role gives.
- 37:00Speaker 7: You more power.
- 37:01Speaker 6: Today, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. heard arguments
- 37:04Speaker 6: in the case of President Trump's plans to build a
- 37:06Speaker 6: new White House ballroom with lawyers for the president looking
- 37:09Speaker 6: to throw out a lower court decision which had halted construction.
- 37:13Speaker 7: A lawyer for the Justice Department told the appellate judges
- 37:15Speaker 7: it's the administration's view that courts cannot stop the ballroom's construction.
- 37:20Speaker 7: and that the National Trust for Historic Preservation in particular
- 37:23Speaker 7: doesn't have standing to sue. Obama appointed Judge Patricia Millett
- 37:26Speaker 7: posed this hypothetical.
- 37:27Speaker 1: Bulldoze the Statue of Liberty.
- 37:29Speaker 7: She asked DOJ Attorney Yakov Roth, if the president suddenly
- 37:32Speaker 7: decided to demolish the famous statue in New York Harbor,
- 37:35Speaker 7: would no one have standing to sue?
- 37:37Speaker 2: Nothing can be done.
- 37:38Speaker 1: I think that's right, yes.
- 37:40Speaker 7: Stephen Portnoy, ABC News, Washington.
- 37:42Speaker 6: Job numbers for May were almost double what analysts had
- 37:45Speaker 6: been expecting. University of Michigan economics professor Justin Wolfers tells
- 37:49Speaker 6: ABC News that lowers the chance of a recession this year.
- 37:52Speaker 10: We had a pretty miserable 2025, but it looks like
- 37:55Speaker 10: the middle or the early and middle parts of 2026.
- 37:59Speaker 10: really suggests the labor market's moving along. And I think
- 38:02Speaker 10: the thing this will really do is it's time to
- 38:04Speaker 10: stop talking about the word recession. Recessions don't happen when
- 38:08Speaker 10: the labor market's motoring along like this.
- 38:10Speaker 6: And it's a life sentence for Brendan Banfield, the man
- 38:13Speaker 6: convicted earlier this year in the murder of his wife
- 38:15Speaker 6: and one other person. You're listening to ABC News.